Frances Bean Cobain to Lana Del Rey: Early death isn't 'cool'

By Kory Grow, Rolling Stone

Updated 7:25 PM ET, Mon June 23, 2014

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Photos:2 decades since Kurt Cobain's death

Kurt Cobain, lead singer of the influential rock band Nirvana, committed suicide at his home in Seattle on April 5, 1994. An authorized documentary about his life, "Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck," aired on HBO in early 2015 to fan raves and critical acclaim. Click through to see photos from his career.

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Cobain performs on stage at the 1991 Reading Music Festival in England.

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From left, Nirvana members Krist Novoselic, Dave Grohl and Cobain pose in 1991.

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Cobain mugs for the camera in 1992.

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Cobain performs in 1992.

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From left, Cobain, Grohl and Novoselic pose in Sydney in 1992.

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Cobain with his wife, Courtney Love, and their daughter, Frances Bean, backstage at the MTV Video Music Awards in 1993.

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Cobain performs on stage with Love and her band Hole circa 1990.

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Cobain performs with Nirvana at the The Pier in Seattle in 1993.

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From left, Cobain, Grohl and Novoselic pose in 1992.

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From left, Grohl, Cobain and Novoselic are seen in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1991.

"The death of young musicians isn't something to romanticize," Frances Bean wrote on Twitter, mentioning Del Rey in a series of tweets. "I'll never know my father because he died young, and it becomes a desirable feat because people like you think it's 'cool.' Well, it's f**king not. Embrace life, because you only get one life. The people you mentioned wasted that life. Don't be one of those people. You're too talented to waste it away." After a Del Rey fan tweeted at Frances Bean to "leave her the f**k alone," the grunge icon's daughter clarified her tweets.

"I'm not attacking anyone," she wrote. "I have no animosity towards Lana. I was just trying to put things in perspective from personal experience."

Prior to Frances Bean's tweets, Del Rey, who had conducted the interview in support of her recently released Ultraviolence record, had already expressed regret over her comment, blaming the Guardian reporter who conducted the interview. In her own series of since-deleted tweets, she said the interviewer asked "leading questions about death and persona."

"I regret trusting The Guardian," she wrote. "I didn't want to do an interview, but the journalist was persistent. [He] was masked as a fan, but was hiding sinister ambitions and angles. Maybe he's actually the boring one looking for something interesting to write about."

Unrelated to Del Rey, Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic recently discussed Cobain's use and suicide in an interview with Reason TV. When the interviewer asked if the singer-guitarist was "too beautiful" for this world, Novoselic sighed. "He was sensitive, and then it was the drug abuse," the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee said. "That was a big, big part of it. He was under a lot of pressure. And he made a bad choice. He was probably pretty ripped when he decided to do what he did. If he would have had a clear mind he wouldn't have done that."